With this latest brigand outburst resulting in the capture of two lady missionaries, one Scottish and the other Australian, with the recent outrages vividly before us, and with the diplomatic attitude taken now before the public, one wonders how long this state of things will exist. Taihiohsien city, not very far from the Honan border, was attacked by presumably this same band, and, if they had gained their point in getting access to that city, two ladies working there would have met the same fate, and been kidnapped. Yingchowfu was endangered at the same time and escaped revestruction by the quick action of the soldiers in heading the bandits off. There seems not to be the slightest hope of any part being immune from these dangerous men, with the exception, it would seem, of the province of Shansi where Yen Shih-shan holds sway.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.